Information Services

This online e-learning course helps you boost your grammar and punctuation skills, choose and use appropriate words and craft effective sentences and paragraphs.  Find it on the iCat database list, or click here.  It’s available to all Kingston University staff and students although registration is required first.  Access code available from MyKingston e-resources page .

Grammar and effective writing is created by Kingston University Department of Journalism and Publishing in association with Nelsoncroom.

After recent interruptions the ku wifi wireless service has now been restored.  We apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused.

There are still places available for this research tutorial next Tuesday 15^th May 2pm – 4pm  at Kingston Hill.

The tutorial is for research staff and students.

Please email Davina on d.omar@kingston.ac.uk if you would like to attend

The abstract for the tutorial is:

Discovering quality information sources is core to the success of your research.  This session will provide you with the discovery skills you need and the knowledge of where to search. The session will go through online databases, search engines and catalogues.

On Wednesday 9 May, the laptop information point at Penrhyn Road LRC will run between 2-4pm.

External borrowers can now view and renew loans as normal when signed into iCat.

We apologise to external borrowers who are currently unable to see their loans list after signing in to iCat.  Whilst we are waiting for the problem to be fixed, please telephone 020 8417 3355 if you need to renew your books.  This problem is not affecting Kingston University students and staff.

Knights Park LRC will be closed for an event on Tuesday 24 April. If you have an urgent enquiry please email library@kingston.ac.uk or call 020 8417 4214. The other LRCs will be open as normal: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/informationservices/usingthelibrary/opening_hours.html

The LRC questionnaire will be closing on Thursday 19th April.

Don’t miss this opportunity to help change how the LRCs will run in the future.

The questionnaire is available from: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/lrc2012

JSTOR is currently displaying

A Problem Occurred

You have successfully logged on to Athens. However, we are unable to identify any resource on www.jstor.org that you have access to. If you think this is erroneous, please feel free to notify us. We will address this problem at our earliest convenience.

If this error continues, please contact JSTOR Support. Please include the time the error occurred and what you were requesting.”

The service is still working and you can click on the search options are the top of the screen. We are working with our suppliers to remove this message. Apologies for any inconvenience.